FTL: Faster Than Light

Kickstarter-funded run-based spaceship management that popularized short, brutal roguelite campaigns.

Released 2012 Developer Subset Games Platform PC Genre Roguelite strategy Era Digital storefronts & indie Website subsetgames.com ↗

Mechanics it built on

Ideas FTL: Faster Than Light inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Permadeath Run Structure ~~1980~~Procedurally Generated Levels ~~1980~~Seeded Procedural Universe ~~1984~~Selectable Difficulty ~~1993~~

Directly influenced

Into the Breach ~~2018~~

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